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Researchers track how spores break out of dormant state

...termeasures that identify the earliest stages of a wide range of spore mediated diseases, including botulism, gas gangrene and pulmonary anthrax,” said Alexander Malkin, senior author from LLNL’s Biosciences and Biotechnology Division. “But it’s also important to gain fundamental insights into the key eve...

Newly discovered antibody may be body's natural defense against Alzheimer's

...althy forms of other proteins that accumulate in a wide variety of diseases, such as Parkinson's, Lewy body dementia and Prion disease (the human form of ‘Mad Cow' disease), to name a few," says Dr. Relkin. Since beta amyloid oligomers are much less abundant in the body than the single-molecule variet...

Study shows lizard moms dress their children for success

...eggs from lizards captured in the wild and found a wide range of naturally occurring estradiol concentrations in the egg yolks. The researchers then performed experiments in breeding enclosures, each holding one male lizard and three females. The numbers of orange- and yellow-throated females in each ...

Penn researchers link cell's protein recycling systems

... that this molecular link can be used to benefit a wide variety of neurodegenerative diseases because accumulation of toxic proteins is a common underlying feature of age-related neurodegeneration.” Taylor and his group study fruit flies in which the proteasome is disabled by a genetic mutation, which...

Bacteria ferry nanoparticles into cells for early diagnosis, treatment

... diagnostic or therapeutic cargo effectively for a wide range of needs." Harmless strains of bacteria could be used as vehicles, harnessing bacteria's natural ability to penetrate cells and their nuclei, Bashir said. "For gene therapy, a big obstacle has been finding ways to transport the therapeuti...

Warning from Asian bees

... and its effects would be far more dramatic than a wide incursion of Apis cerana....

Researchers demonstrate way to control tree height

...tic engineering techniques. It opens the door to a wide variety of new products for the ornamental and nursery industries, experts say, if regulatory hurdles can be overcome – a big “if.” The findings were recently published in the journal Landscape Plant News. “From a science perspective, this is...

Helping chlorine-eating bacteria clean up toxic waste

...der, Cornell professor of microbiology, are now in wide use to detoxify such carcinogenic chemicals as perchloroethylene (PCE) and trichloroethylene (TCE). They do this by removing chlorine atoms from molecules and leaving less-toxic compounds behind. But D. ethenogenes strains work well at some sites ...

Ice Age extinction claimed highly carnivorous Alaskan wolves

...ska and throughout the world. The fossils showed a wide range of haplotypes—greater in fact than their modern counterpart—but there was no overlap with modern wolves. This was unexpected. “We thought possibly they would be related to Asian wolves instead of American wolves because North America and As...

Antarctic icebergs -- Hotspots of ocean life

...icebergs and their immediate environment, taking a wide array of measurements – physical, biological and chemical, and using satellite images provided by NASA. At the same time, the wealth of data brought new challenges in how to manage this avalanche of information. “The whole is definitely greater t...

Genome of Clostridium botulinum reveals the background to world's deadliest toxin

... This remarkable, stable genome demonstrates the wide range of strategies used by bacteria to enhance their chances of survival. For the Clostridia, these range from the approach used by Cdiff — long-term interaction with hosts, which involves evading the immune system and countering antibiotics — to th...

Want to save polar bears? Follow the ice

...e (USGS). "This will be the first distribution wide study on the ecological needs of polar bears in the context of global warming," said Dr. Gary Tabor, director of WCS’ North America Program. "This will allow us to understand past studies on the species in relation to other populations, and will info...

Arctic ice retreating more quickly than computer models project

...e September loss, the models underestimate it by a wide margin as well. The study concludes that the actual rate of sea ice loss in March, which averaged about 1.8 percent per decade in the 1953-2006 period, was three times larger than the mean from the computer models. March is typically the month when A...

How to look at dinosaur tracks

...ntrada Sandstone at the studied locality come in a wide range of morphologies, mainly as a result of present-day erosion that has exposed the track-bearing surfaces at different depths,?the researchers explain. “[They] demonstrate that great care should be taken when describing fossil footprints that have...

Technique monitors thousands of molecules simultaneously

...electrochemically addressable chip. In this way, a wide variety of molecules can be generated and then probed for their biological behavior in real-time," said Moeller. "It's a tool, still being developed, to map receptors. We're right at the cusp of things." Moeller published on the technology in a rec...

World's leading scientists announce creation of 'Encyclopedia of Life'

...opedia of Life will collaborate and partner with a wide range of organizations, individuals, and experts to help strengthen the Encyclopedia and its impact on communities throughout the world. "The solidarity of the U.S. and global communities for the Encyclopedia of Life is tremendously exciting and ...

DNA-damage test could aid drug development

... the assay in rats and other organisms, and with a wide variety of other toxic chemicals. "This research is the first stage in a new type of clinical drug toxicity test," says Lodish. "And although we haven't done it, you may be able to extend the technique to humans. Humans are the gold standard in th...

Herpes infection may be symbiotic, help beat back some bacteria

...ausing them to patrol for invaders with their eyes wide open and defense weapons ready." Other scientists previously had shown that interferon gamma helps the immune system fight off some strains of bacteria. This led Virgin and his colleagues to test herpes-infected mice with exposure to the bacteria ...

Executable biology -- Computer science sheds light on animal development

... lab experiments. By running their model with a wide variety of gene mutation scenarios and comparing results with available laboratory data, they found that the fate of C. elegans vulval precursor cells depends upon the time-sequence of two cellular signaling pathways, as well as a negative feedback l...

Uniform language for describing genes of pathogenic and beneficial microbes

...o compare the functions of genes and proteins in a wide range of disease-related organisms. The ongoing initiative is part of the Plant-Associated Microbe Gene Ontology (PAMGO) project, a recently-established interest group of the worldwide Gene Ontology Consortium. The GO Consortium has been working sin...

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